Tune-sheet holder.



Patented Sept. I8, |900.

J. wELLNER.y TUNE SHEET HOLDER.

(Application led Apr. 9, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT Critica,

JULIUS VVELLNER, OF JERSEY CITY, NEY JERSEY.

TUNE-'SHEET HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 658,035, dated September 18, 1900.

Application tiled April 9, 1 900 Serial No. l2g056. (No model.)

Be it known that I, JULIUs WELLNER,a citizen of the United States, residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tune-Sheet Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon,which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to tune-sheet holders in mechanical musical instruments.

The object of my invention is to furnish a device that will receive, hold, and release the tune-sheet. To effect this,I have devised and constructed a holder that has pivotal action which receives and retains the tune-sheet while operating the star-wheels. In this pivotal action of the support, which rests in the center hole furnished in all circular tunesheets, my invention differs from the tunesheet holders known to date, generally consisting in a horizontal pin having spring action backward and forward. It can be readily understood that during the opening movement this oblique position of the support in the tune-sheet hole is a great advantage, inasm uch as the tune-sheet is compelled to slide down the slanting pin, not alone by reason of the pointed nat-ure of the end of such pin, but additionally on account of its being withdrawn by said pivotal action. My device is furthermore very simple in its construction and possesses the quality of not relying on any spring action to release the tune-sheet, such spring-actuated holders in these cases at all events being somewhat expensive and not uniformly reliable, because the spring is liable after a certain period to lose its elas ticity and must in consequence be replaced by another.

My improved tune-sheet holder can be applied to all kinds of mechanical musical instruments whether the tune-sheet in such instruments be fed toward the star-Wheels in a vertical or a horizontal position.

In describing my improvement I shall call attention to the accompanying drawings,

wherein like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different views.

Figure l shows a front view of my tunesheet holder if said holder is considered as applied to an instrument having the tunesheets fed in avertical position. If in an instrument having the tune-sheets fed horizontally, it will be a top View. Fig.` 2 is an end or side view of the tune-sheet holder as shown in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is similarly an end view of said holder as shown in Fig. l, but with the comb, star-Wheels, and auxiliary elements omitted in order to more clearly show my invented means. Fig. 4E is a sectional view of the same parts that are shown in Fig. 3 through a line X X in Fig. l; and Fig. 5, with the same explanation holding good relative to the position of the tune-sheet holder in a vertical or a horizontal instrumen t, as in Fig. 1, is a front or top view, as the case may be, of the seat that receives the tune-sheet holder or, more explicitly speaking, the pin forming part of the pivotal arm of the tune-sheet holder.

In the said figures A indicates the tunesheet; B, the comb; D, the series of starwheels operating the comb-teeth.

E is a plate, to which is secured by screws E and E2 the two bearings F and F2. Pivoted in these bearings is the bar H, having an arm H', which arm can be operated by any of the motive means that may beused in the instrument in which my tune-sheet holder is applied. Forming an integral part of or inserted firmly in this pivoted bar l-I is a pin I, said pin I being tapered at the end, so as to furnish thereby a safe and immediate release for the tune-sheet. Affixed to the plate E or to any means that has the pivoted bar H pivoted to it is a seat K, said seat secured to the plate E by screws J, J2, and J3. rlhe said seat K is furnished with a hole K, which hole is adapted to receive the pin I and is to that eect slightly elliptically formed atits mouth, as seen in Fig. 5. It can now be seen very clearly that when, as shown in Fig. 3, the pivoted bar H is open, having been brought into such position by some motive power operat- .inO on the arm H and the tune-sheet A has been moved upward in a verticalinstrument and laterally in a horizontal instrument in the direction of the arrow Z and has reached ICO the point Where the centrally-located hole of the tunesheet is, opposite to the tapered point of the pin I, then Ithe above-stated'motive means operating on the arm H will move the bar II pivotally in the direction of the arro7 Z2, Jthe tune-sheet A thus resting on the pin Iand the pin I being inserted in the hole K of the seat K, as seen in Figs. 2 and 4.

I do not of course Strictly limit myself to the nature or construction of several of the elements shown in the drawings-as, for instance to the means supporting the pivoted bar H or the means called by me the seat receiving the pin I--inasmuch as more adequate means than these might easily be substituted without interfering With my inventive principle of a pivotaltune-sheet holder.

What I claim, and desire to secure protection for by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a mechanical musical instrument,sep

arate tune-shcets operating the same, a piv; oted tune-sheet holder having a pin lixed thereto, a holloW seat coperating with said pin substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. In a mechanical musical instrumenthaving separate tune-sheets for operating the same, the combination with a pivoted tunesheet holder having a pin iixed thereto of a hollow seat with which the pin interlocks, so that said pin lies longitudinally through the aXis of its seat. l

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 29th day of March, A. D. 1900.

JULIUS WELLNER.

Witnesses:

l AUGusT M. TREsoI-Iow,

JosEPH SCHIRER. 

